Intel Nova Lake: Everything We Know About the Core Ultra 400 Series and Its New LGA 1954 Socket

David_Schroth · 2026-03-23T11:50:08-0400

As the Arrow Lake Refresh launches this week as a deliberate stopgap measure, the PC building community’s real attention is increasingly on what comes next: Nova Lake. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has confirmed key details about the upcoming Nova Lake desktop CPUs. After Arrow Lake Refresh and Panther Lake, Intel plans to introduce Nova Lake […]

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LazyGamer · 2026-03-23T11:58:44-0400

Intel’s Big Last Level Cache (BLLC) feature — its engineering response to AMD’s 3D V-Cache — is also expected in Nova Lake. If it arrives and delivers competitive gaming performance at Intel price points, it could be the most consequential Intel desktop CPU launch since Raptor Lake.

I'm really looking forward to how this performs!

igor_kavinski · 2026-03-23T12:26:50-0400

LazyGamer said:
I'm really looking forward to how this performs!

It's going to have latency higher than X3D since it probably won't be stacked cache.

Grimlakin · 2026-03-23T14:40:58-0400

Will be interesting to see how they work it out.

LazyGamer · 2026-03-23T15:18:18-0400

igor_kavinski said:
It's going to have latency higher than X3D since it probably won't be stacked cache.

I don't know how we can say anything definitive at this time. Intel themselves might not have it nailed down yet, right?

Intel Nova Lake: Everything We Know About the Core Ultra 400 Series and Its New LGA 1954 Socket

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